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Scoundrel
Sometimes I compare my life to a game of Snakes and Ladders. Time after time I make my way steadily towards the winning square, only to land on the head of a snake.That s what happened two days ago. The dice landed me on a square which read YOU ARE ARRESTED-RETURN TO BOTTOM LINE and I was whisked from a comfortable apartment to a small, scruffy cell.Colonel Ronald Rokesby-Gore s the name. At least, it s the name inscribed on this cigarette case. I am a professional scoundrel.My victims are middle-aged women-though victim seems rather a strong word, since I strive to give value for money- and unless I can find one within 24 hours, the game s up . . . Highly readable ... It is, in a way, the test of a novel that the characters in it should be so much alive that you can imagine them in another setting. In this respect, Mr Elstob s rather endearing bounder comes nastily off the page YORKSHIRE POST An amoral and highly entertaining career ... Peter Elstob handles the farce of his pathetic hero s manoeuvres with cynical good humour'IRISH TIMES
224 pages, Hardcover
First published December 27, 1987
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About the author
Peter Elstob
27 books3 followersPeter Frederick Egerton Elstob was a British soldier, adventurer, novelist, military historian and entrepreneur. In his writing he is best known for his lightly-fictionalized novel Warriors For the Working Day (1960) and his military history of the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Last Offensive (1971).
He joined the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, and later served in the Royal Tank Regiment in World War II, in which service he was promoted to sergeant and was Mentioned in Despatches.
He joined International PEN in 1962 and served first as general secretary and later as vice-president for seven years during the 1970s, rescuing the organisation from financial failure; he also secured the future of the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1946.
He prospered as an entrepreneur with a facial product called Yeast Pac, with several partners. In his obituary in The Guardian newspaper, Elstob was said to be:
...one of those people born in the wrong century. With his charm and audacity, his passion for travel, and his love of risk-taking and financial gambles, he would have been more at home in the reign of Elizabeth I.
He joined the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, and later served in the Royal Tank Regiment in World War II, in which service he was promoted to sergeant and was Mentioned in Despatches.
He joined International PEN in 1962 and served first as general secretary and later as vice-president for seven years during the 1970s, rescuing the organisation from financial failure; he also secured the future of the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1946.
He prospered as an entrepreneur with a facial product called Yeast Pac, with several partners. In his obituary in The Guardian newspaper, Elstob was said to be:
...one of those people born in the wrong century. With his charm and audacity, his passion for travel, and his love of risk-taking and financial gambles, he would have been more at home in the reign of Elizabeth I.
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